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Glazed America
Paul R. Mullins
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Description for Glazed America
Looks into doughnut production, marketing, and consumption. This book confronts head-on the question of why we often paint doughnuts in moral terms, and shows how the seemingly simple food reveals deep and complex social conflicts over body image and class structure. Num Pages: 224 pages, 22 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFCV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
Everybody loves a good doughnut. The magic combination of soft dough, hot oil, and sugar coating - with or without sprinkles - inspires a wide range of surprisingly powerful memories and cravings. Yet we are embarrassed by our desire; the favorite food of Homer Simpson, caricatured as the dietary cornerstone of cops, a symbol of our collective descent into obesity, doughnuts are, in the words of one California consumer, a 'food of shame.'Paul Mullins turns his attention to the simple doughnut in order to learn more about North American culture and society. Both a breakfast staple and a snack to ... Read more
Everybody loves a good doughnut. The magic combination of soft dough, hot oil, and sugar coating - with or without sprinkles - inspires a wide range of surprisingly powerful memories and cravings. Yet we are embarrassed by our desire; the favorite food of Homer Simpson, caricatured as the dietary cornerstone of cops, a symbol of our collective descent into obesity, doughnuts are, in the words of one California consumer, a 'food of shame.'Paul Mullins turns his attention to the simple doughnut in order to learn more about North American culture and society. Both a breakfast staple and a snack to ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University Press of Florida United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Florida, United States
ISBN
9780813032382
SKU
V9780813032382
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About Paul R. Mullins
Paul Mullins, associate professor of anthropology at Indiana University - Purdue University, Indianapolis, is the author of Race and Affluence: An Archaeology of African America and Consumer Culture.
Reviews for Glazed America
Mullins does a fine job of examining the doughnut not as a singular thing or symbol, but as a complex object that elicits many subtly different - sometimes contradictory - ideas about us. He grapples with the complicated social history of this particular food item not by merely examining its physical history, but by tracing the rich and complicated connections ... Read more